I have not been feeling well at all.  My cold hit me hard by Christmas Day.  Yesterday I was a couch potato.  That evening one of the movies we watched was "The Christmas Blessing", the sequel to "Christmas Shoes".  There was a boy in the movie about my son's age, who had something wrong.  For some reason I started guessing he had Marfan's Syndrome...eventually we found out that he did.  His aorta was growing too large and was not a transplant candidate.  He was given some new meds that took care of him.  Meanwhile his teacher ended up in the hospital, needing a new liver.  All this time, a mutual friend, played by Neal Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser) was a cardiologist who quit practicing medicine when he lost a patient at the beginning of the movie.  His mind was haunted by his mother who had died one Christmas Eve when he was 10, the night he gave her Christmas Shoes.  This was the little boy grown up from the first movie.  This was a great movie.  And it affected us personally.  Whenever my kids go in for a physical, the docs check my kids out for Marfan's Syndrome because they have many of the characteristics of the life threatening condition.  The docs never find enough evidence to officially classify them with Marfan's.  However I am to keep an eye on them.  The minute we observe any heart pain, we are to take them to the hospital.  I found it interesting though, that the actor cast to play the boy did not exhibit any of the physical characteristics common to Marfan's.  I'm guessing the casting department wasn't up on all of it's Marfan's symptoms.